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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean

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